Y.W.C.A.'s 50th

The Y.W.C.A. is no longer exclusively C. That was the big news of the 50th anniversary of the World's Young Women's Christian Association, celebrated last week in some 400 U.S. cities and a dozen foreign lands.

The Y.W. now flourishes in 53 nations, with some 1,500,000 members. Their activities range from sports to classes in stenography, from providing board & room for city working girls to running summer vacation camps for youngsters. Currently the Y.W. is hard at work in war zones, with some 20 rest and recreation centers (including a houseboat on the Nile at Cairo) which provide servicewomen with such occasional luxuries as breakfast in bed, hairdressers, tearooms.

But as the Y.W.'s good works have multiplied, its emphasis on religious activities has waned. It now includes many a non-Christian in Asia. And in the U.S., the Y.W.'s famed Bible classes are a thing of the past.

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